I’ve noticed this about being lied to, from youth to school to later on when we learned about love hands on.

Injustice creates an ecosystem of the abused.

There are those that are empowered by the lie and then those who are deceived.  But then there are those who are empowered in a different way

wielding secret knowledge

like our own feeling of moral superiority over America’s first president.

Hidden truth can empower the ego.

False narratives bring with them all of these reactions which aren’t so obvious from the outside.

Survivalists, false believers, truthers, hypocrites, cynics

It gets complicated quickly

Though nothing seemed more complicated than the opposite sex.

some people love the same sex

And the exception makes the rule.